as in spoiling
to treat with great or excessive care
refused to mollycoddle her malingering son and sent him off to school
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But the battery also more than erases the size and weight advantage of the Air compared to Apple’s other phones, spoiling the Air's light weight and thin profile.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025 -
With Trump seemingly on side, Nandy knows GB News and Farage are spoiling for a fight.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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How did Chanel maintain her gamine figure while regularly indulging there?—
Leslie Camhi,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Sep. 2025
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Nominally, this is a feel-good redemption drama, though Perry can’t help indulging some darker impulses as well.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep. 2025
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Brock Bowers, nursing an injured knee but active Sunday, caught just four passes for 38 yards.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Darvish, who made his season debut on July 7 after nursing an elbow issue through the season’s three months, allowed six hits Saturday to a team that lost its 97th game and ranks 27th in batting average.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Sep. 2025
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Salicylic acid penetrates deep into the pores to dissolve away acne-causing debris, while coddling the skin barrier with a cocktail of ceramides and niacinamide.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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This is not about lowering expectations or coddling employees.—
Ruth Oh Reitmeier,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Conceivably one or two of them should have already been at Citi Field, but until finally summoning McLean to pitch Saturday, Stearns has been babying them in the minors.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
16 Aug. 2025
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However, some have criticized employer techniques for tracking in-office attendance as babying employees and demonstrating an unwarranted lack of trust.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Mollycoddling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mollycoddling. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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